How To Become A Musical Critic By Bernard Shaw |
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Page 143
... better accompanist than Mr Grieg . Both Mr Grieg and Mr Wolff were rapturously applauded , and had to appear three times in response to the calls of the delighted audience . Mrs Grieg sang three more songs , With a Water - lily , Mar ...
... better accompanist than Mr Grieg . Both Mr Grieg and Mr Wolff were rapturously applauded , and had to appear three times in response to the calls of the delighted audience . Mrs Grieg sang three more songs , With a Water - lily , Mar ...
Page 329
... better than ours ; the average singers were much worse . At the predominant Royal Italian Opera , Mr Heddle Nash would have been impossible so - called ; but Signor Edele Nascio would have been as much in order and at home with Signor ...
... better than ours ; the average singers were much worse . At the predominant Royal Italian Opera , Mr Heddle Nash would have been impossible so - called ; but Signor Edele Nascio would have been as much in order and at home with Signor ...
Page 330
... better than it was fifty years ago . Voices so strained by singing continually in the top fifth of their range that they could not sustain a note without a tremolo , nor keep to the pitch , like those of Faure and Maurel ; sopranos ...
... better than it was fifty years ago . Voices so strained by singing continually in the top fifth of their range that they could not sustain a note without a tremolo , nor keep to the pitch , like those of Faure and Maurel ; sopranos ...
Contents
HOW TO BECOME A MUSICAL | 1 |
THE EMERGENCE OF BASSETTO The 1880s | 45 |
THE WELLTEMPERED CRITIC The 1890s | 175 |
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